It basically gives you instant info. Like MJ’s death was quickly spread around twitter, amongst my followers/ and people i follow group. And as a “Trending Topic”

SO i thought, should I continue blogging? or Just tweet my thoughts out. Say what I wanted to say within 140 characters. Naah Id rather blog about it. I will just make twitter a means for people to get to my blog.

But like this blogs and my previous ones, my twitter updates are all dependent on my mood to write. Sometimes there are stuff to read there, sometimes it is as boring as hell. (but is it really boring there?)

Wikipedia is facing an issue regarding the use of digitized painting from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). A wiki volunteer uploaded thousands of high-resolution images, which the NPG i think claims sole ownership from.

There seems to be a lot of passenger plane accidents/mishaps going on this year. Well I have not really followed “airplane crashes” from previous years but 2 Airbuses (Boeing planes) are already down, and now this one in Iran.

The main problem with a plane crash I think is it’s “survivability”. Compared to a plane crash, ships on fire or sinking will yield more survivors. That is just an observation. The crash in Yemen a few weeks ago has only one survivor. A 14 year old..

It’s back. The Quanta assembled Apple netbook rumor that kicked off in March with a Commercial Times report calling for a Wintek-supplied touchscreen has returned… with a fever. China Times has now stepped in with a claim of a 9.7-inch touchscreen netbook to debut in October. CT claims that Wintek, and Dynapack have all received orders direct from Apple while Foxconn (not Quanta) will be the main manufacturer. It’s still unclear whether the reported device takes on the traditional netbook form-factor, goes convertible like the T91, or is a 9.7-inch slate like a giant iPod touch. In fact, the Chinese-language report translated into English refers to it as “Apple’s netbook (or a “tablet” as many call it)” only adding to the confusion. Regardless, we find it hard to believe that Apple would just follow the industry trends here. Then again, Sony did announce the VAIO W after rebuking netbooks as a race to the bottom thus leaving Apple as the only major without a low-cost netbook in its portfolio. But $800, if true, prices whatever this is right out of netbook territory — ultra-portable anyone?

This morning I was in a situation where I need to send one email to multiple email addresses that are in an excel sheet. There were like 3000+ recipients which I tried to send to. I used MS Outlook 2007 and added the recipients in Bcc so that they would not know who I sent the other mails to. The sending however failed. I think there are limitations set by an ISP or whatever.

The solution was Mail Merge. I took my lunch, and googled for the solution.

This example is from my own experience using Office 2007. It may not be literally applicable to other versions. (disclaimer)

1.) From the Menu click “Mailings”
2.) Click Start Mail Merge and choose Email
3.) Add Recipients, it is helpful if you have an Excel sheeet of the Email Addresses on ready. Or any portable db you can grab data from.
4.) Insert in the Document the body of your email, what you want to say etc.
5.) Click Finish and Merge > Send Email Message
6.) You will be prompted with a final “look” of your header email.
7.) Once it is starting to create the Mail Merge, you will notice your MS Outlook starting to fill up with items. Especially the Outbox and Sent Items.